Fritz wxtzlawik



'F. WAT-ZLAWIK TOY.

No. 497,081. Patented May 9, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRITZ WATZLAWVIK, OF BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN OASPAR KOCH, OF SAME PLACE.

TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 497,081, dated May 9, 1893.

Application filed June 3, 1892. Serial No. 435,387. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRITZ WATZLAWIK, a citizen of Austria-Hungary, residing at Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, have invented an Improved Toy, of which the following is a specification.

This toy is made in the form of a figure, such for instance as a man or woman, an animal or a flower and it is provided with a supporting pivot and weights, so that the toy can be held upon its pivot in a balanced posture and it can swing more or less upon the pivot and rest thereupon in a position that may be termed floating in the atmosphere.

By this improvement the toy is adapted to amuse children and others by the singularity of the posture that it may be made to assume.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the figure in one position, and Fig. 2 shows a similar figurein a different position.

The figure is made to represent a man; it might however be that of a flower or an ani mal, such as a dog or a cat, and upon the figure is a projecting pivot A adapted to rest upon a table, a stick or other support, and the weights B are movably connected to the figure by joints 0. These weights are represented in the drawings asat the ends of the arms ofthe figure, the joint 0 being at the shoulder, but these weights may be at the ends of any suitable arms or bars D connected to the toy figure, so that the weights may be moved into various positions, and they will retain their positions by the friction of the joints 0. By placing these arms orbars D in the desired positions, the Weights B are brought to the proper places for supporting the figure upon the pivot A, the weights being sufficient to counterbalance the leverage of the other portions of the figure, hence the figure can be made to occupy an inverted position or to stand nearly horizontally or more or less inclined according as the arms or bars D are turned upon the pivot O and the weights B brought nearer together or farther apart.

In the case of a toy animal, the pivot A upon which the weight rests may be at the end of the beak of a bird or at the end of the paws of a cat or other animal, and the weights in such instances are preferably of such a color as to be noticed but little as they project of course at the opposite side of the pivot to the figure.

I claim as my invention A toy figure having a pivotal support A upon the same and weights B and arms or bars between the weights and the figure, such arms or bars being jointed to the figure and adapted to being moved into any desired position in relation to the pivotal support, substautially as set forth.

Signed by me this 19th day of May, 1892.

FRITZ WVAFZLAWIK.

Witnesses:

W. H. EDWARDS, L. A. EDWARDS. 

